Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Leads performance engineering across the organization by designing load-testing and data-generation frameworks, defining benchmarks and standards, analyzing application, database, and system behavior, and guiding teams in performance optimization. Builds reusable tooling and best practices using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB while addressing scalability, latency, throughput, and reliability challenges in distributed cloud-native systems.

Develop and deploy customer-focused web, mobile, and backend applications across the full software stack. Design major features, contribute to architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and ensure secure, high-quality implementations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams using Agile and SDLC practices. Manage version control, CI/CD, environments, and releases; maintain automated test coverage and perform root-cause analysis. Build and optimize relational data solutions using SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable Java microservices on AWS. Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, code reviews, troubleshooting, proof-of-concept development, and cross-functional collaboration. Work with high-throughput data, messaging systems, distributed architectures, observability, and AI-assisted development tools. Participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, lead architectural initiatives, and deliver reliable SaaS platform features.

Own the development and maintenance of large-scale React Native applications for iOS and Android. Lead architecture improvements, React Native upgrades, native module development, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD reliability, and production debugging. Collaborate with cross-functional product pods, contribute to technical discovery and architecture, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, maintainable mobile experiences.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build scalable AI/ML backend systems, develop data pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement ML-driven features while ensuring system performance and documentation.

Architect and operate scalable backend systems, APIs, distributed services, and secure data platforms using Python and related technologies. Partner with data science and ML teams to productionize AI capabilities, lead cross-team technical initiatives, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers. Own systems throughout the product lifecycle while emphasizing reliability, observability, performance, privacy, and data integrity.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Develops and enhances complex software applications across the full software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding, testing, debugging, architecture, DevOps, automation, cloud-native development, system integration, documentation, and technical leadership. The role mentors engineers, leads code reviews and technical initiatives, and evaluates AI-assisted development, RAG, agentic workflows, and secure AI solutions. Collaboration with product, architecture, systems, and testing teams is required to improve reliability, reduce technical debt, and support business outcomes.

Lead the technical roadmap for partner integrations across APIs, SDKs, and web experiences. Design and build scalable products, standardize external partner integrations, and deliver payment and data-sharing capabilities. Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, Infrastructure, Sales, Partner, and Customer Success teams while remaining hands-on. Drive architecture, code quality, delivery, stakeholder alignment, and technical strategy for high-impact fintech products.

Design and implement backend services, modernize legacy systems into microservices, ensure strong testing and production observability, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams. The role requires independent project ownership, strong system design, AI-assisted development using tools such as Claude or Cursor, effective communication with nontechnical stakeholders, and adaptability in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.

Build and optimize automated release engineering systems, including CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment tooling, and AWS cloud infrastructure. Ensure software delivery quality, security, compliance, and reliability. Lead complex projects, participate in on-call support, mentor teammates, and promote technical excellence. The role uses Go, Java/Kotlin, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Backstage, AWS, and AI development tools.

Develop and scale NinjaOne’s ticketing and billing products using Java and Kotlin. Design reliable enterprise software, REST services, relational data systems, caching solutions, and client-server applications. Address scalability, asynchronous design, API development, testing, and integrations with accounting platforms such as QuickBooks and Xero. Contribute hands-on code, apply object-oriented design principles, and help ship software serving millions of endpoints.

Lead technical direction for a central infrastructure team supporting all product engineering. Design and maintain AWS infrastructure, Terraform modules, CI/CD workflows, observability, security, networking, cost-visibility tooling, and operational platforms. Coordinate multiple initiatives, improve reliability and incident response, establish paved roads adopted by feature teams, guide infrastructure strategy, and coach engineers across the organization.

Build and ship customer-facing products across backend services, APIs, data models, React web interfaces, and Android point-of-sale applications. Learn unfamiliar platforms quickly, collaborate with product and design, deliver resilient code, and own testing, instrumentation, on-call support, and cleanup. The role emphasizes 0-to-1 product development, customer-focused decision-making, rapid experimentation, and using AI tools to improve development velocity and quality.

Build and optimize pipelines migrating 8,000+ documentation pages, recreate technical documentation UI components in Angular, manage CI/CD and DevOps workflows, and work with Java backend services and proprietary enterprise infrastructure. Collaborate with design and digital teams, engage directly with clients, lead technical projects, and deliver reliable systems under aggressive timelines.

Designs and builds full-stack cloud applications with AI-powered features for supply chain and operations. Responsibilities include integrating ML models and LLM APIs, developing agentic workflows and MCP servers, modeling knowledge graphs and ontologies, establishing engineering standards, implementing CI/CD and testing, monitoring production systems, and mentoring junior engineers. The role also leads complex application projects and translates business problems into reliable, production-ready solutions.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain cloud-native AWS applications using Node.js, React.js, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Build infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CDK, create CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot Linux environments, and support secure cloud operations. Collaborate with UI/UX, cloud engineering, architecture, and DevOps teams while contributing to compliance, hardening, architectural decisions, and on-call operations.

Senior Full Stack Engineer building scalable, high-performance web applications. Own feature design through delivery, write clean reusable code, optimize databases, work with CI/CD, containers, cloud, distributed systems, mentor teammates, and maintain zero customer-reported bugs.

Modernize and develop a large-scale React Native mobile application with reliable offline-first functionality, local data storage, synchronization, BLE device integrations, scalability, and strong performance. The role includes shaping architecture, improving engineering practices, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring developers, providing technical leadership, and visiting customer farms to understand workflows. Requires extensive mobile development experience and occasional U.S. travel.

Designs, builds, scales, and operates distributed CI/CD services supporting millions of builds, tests, and releases. Develops code for Azure-based infrastructure spanning virtual machines, containers, and custom lab environments. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, architecture and design documentation, estimation, debugging, optimization, operational playbooks, on-call incident response, monitoring, reliability improvements, and mentoring engineers.

Build and maintain full-stack software for startup clients, including backend services, frontend experiences, new features, redesigns, bug fixes, and product improvements. Collaborate daily with product managers, designers, and engineers in a distributed, agile environment. Take ownership across the technology stack, write clean maintainable code, contribute to client missions, and support team growth and knowledge sharing.

Senior .NET Software Engineer responsible for end-to-end software development using Microsoft technologies. Requires extensive experience in SDLC, design principles, technical documentation, web application development with .NET, Agile/SCRUM, Entity Framework, database design, and version control. Familiarity with project tools JIRA, TEMPO, Bitbucket, and Confluence preferred.

Develop and modernize a production React Native mobile application supporting offline-first workflows, BLE device integrations, synchronization, scalability, performance, and reliability. Design and maintain application features, contribute to architecture and engineering standards, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor developers, provide technical leadership, and engage with farm customers. Occasional travel to customer locations is required.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).